Beautiful wedding story.
Here in Nigeria, many people borrow to put up expensive wedding ceremony. Just to show off.
That is the culture we have irked out for ourselves in Nigeria. We invite many people who are not hungry to an expensive wedding banquet at expensive venues.
A friend of mine told me very proudly a couple of years back that the reception of her brother's wedding was at Oriental Hotel. She relegated my Nephew's wedding because the reception venue wasn't cosy.
My Nephew's wedding is blessed with two beautiful babies; a boy and a girl. A beautiful family too.
This is the age in Nigeria when you cannot wed if you don't measure up to the financial standard that encourages extravagant wedding. Otherwise you are embarrassing yourself. That is just the way it is, everybody says.
But must you follow the crowd? What prevents you from cutting your coat according to your size? If in a wedding, you invite 5 people from the bride's family and 5 people from your family and maybe 5 other invitees, with 20 bottles of drinks and rice, isn't that going to be a successful wedding?
I met a young man who told me that on their wedding day, he arranged for Keke Napep to take himself and his bride home. The bride didn't want to get into the keke. So he told her, if you're not ready to go, Keke driver you can move. Then the wife shouted please wait. And She jumped in and they drove off.
The guy was damm so poor then. He cruises about now in Jeep. He owns a transport firm now and their marriage is flourishing.
Their marriage is flourishing now! That is what is important. We kind of belief without realizing it that the wedding is the real thing. We call it the D day.
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